Question

Read a part of a short story. Choose for gaps 22 through 30, the most appropriate answer (A, B, C or D). ***** It happened in 1921, one year before I joined the Indian Police. I had just passed out of the Police College in England and had not been placed very high in the list. I never was much good at examinations, you know. One day an advertisement in The Times (22). my attention. It said something about 'young man wanted for unusual work. Must have cool head.' Well, it was only three years after the war and there were (23) of young men who could probably do whatever it was. But I sat down and wrote to the paper and two days later I had a note asking me (24) at one of London's best hotels in Piccadilly and ask (25) Mijnheer Van Lutjens. Well, I put on my best suit and exactly at eleven o'clock I knocked at the door of room 169. ***** V. ***** Van Lutjens was, of course, a Dutchman, and a very pleasant Dutchman. Small, round; you know, the kind of fellow, with no angles at all but with small bright eyes. He offered me a smoke and (26).. to talk business at once. ***** It sounded easy enough. Van Lutjens was one of Amsterdam's leading diamond merchants. An American group of diamond buyers (27)..... asked him to come over to New York with the famous Rozelles ear-rings. He explained that (28) were two valuable diamonds, perfectly matched, which he had some time before obtained from a member of one of Central Europe's royal families in Paris. He was going to sail in the Berengaria two days (29) and he wanted someone to watch over the ear-rings. It sounded rather dull and I didn't understand why it (30) a 'cool head', as the advertisement said. But the money he offered me was generous, and so I accepted. ***** 22. A gathered 23. A many 24. A calling 25. A for 26. A had started 27. A had 28. A any 29. A past 30. A needs B paid B plenty B call B about B was starting B have ..... B where B later B has needed C collected Clot C calls C from C started C were C some Cover C will need D attracted D several D to call D of D has started D has D they D before D needed​

Answer 1

Ответ:

What was the advertisement in The Times about that caught the narrator's attention?

A. A job for a young man with a cool head

B. A diamond merchant looking for buyers

C. A royal family in Central Europe

D. A trip to New York with valuable earrings

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